[Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Debian Linux is running in a POWER5 IBM iSeries (i5) model 9406-520

[David Gaya]

On 6/26/05, Harald G=F6rl <Harald.Goerl@rz.uni-augsburg.de> wrote:
> Hi again.
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> >>Harald, you said your system booted in a virtual LPAR,
> >>  was that LPAR using real scsi ?
> >>  or wat it using virtual scsi ?
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> Both of them are working. The dump i sent in my last mail was with using
> real scsi (driver "ipr").
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> > Ok,; this is a bug in initrd-tools, and needs to be fixed.
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> For OpenPower 720 virtual SCSI we need the driver "ibmvscsic.ko" loaded
> with initrd, perhaps the entry is missing as Sven wrote:
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> > Can you add the modules you need for your scsi device to /etc/mkinitrd/=
modules
> > and rerun the kernel-iumage configuration (dpkg --reconfigure
> > kernel-image-2.6.11-pseries) in the meantime, should solve your problem=
.
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> I agree, that's what i did. Sorry not to mention this, i forgot. For a
> vio (scsi) server i have also an entry for "ibmvscsis.ko", but this is
> only needed on one LPAR in a physical machine (the one serving physical
> partitions/block devices/files to partitions without "real" SCSI hardware=
.
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> Hope this helps?
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Yep.
I added ibmvscsic to /etc/mkinitrd/modules
run "dpkg-reconfigure kernel-image-2.6.11-pseries"
and now it works.
Thanks.